This is a course designed for students who completed Spanish Beginners 1 or have completed a taster course in Spanish language. This course aims to provide you with a very basic range of simple expressions about personal details and needs of a concrete type.

This course prepares students for CEFR A1.

-        Understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type.

-        Introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has.

-        Interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

All courses on the Languages for All programme are delivered on a hybrid mode, mixing face-to-face and virtual teaching. You will be expected to actively participate in role-plays, interactive activities and group discussions. Course material is accessible on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment, Learning Central, and should be cross-platform compatible.

18 contact hours – 2 hours per week of interactive language workshops

Intellectual Skills:

-        Enhanced cognitive skills leading to innovation, creativity and problem solving.

-        Critical analysis applied to discourse, texts, images and events.

-        Advanced listening and reading skills: the ability to scan complex texts (including audio) for gist, to synthesise information and focus on salient points.

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

-        Recognise familiar words and very basic phrases concerning myself, my family and immediate concrete surroundings when people speak slowly and clearly.-   

     Understand familiar names, words and very simple sentences.

-        Interact in a simple way provided the other person is prepared to repeat or rephrase things at a slower rate of speech; ask and answer simple questions in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.

-         Write in short and simple sentences.

Transferable Skills:

-        Ability to learn additional languages for personal/employment reasons.

-        Awareness of and sensitivity to diversity based on culture.

-        Ability to navigate and mediate between more than one culture to interpret meaning and intent beyond the purely linguistic.

-        Heightened literacy, textual analysis and oracy in mother tongue.

-        Presentation skills.

-        Ability to work cooperatively, as a member of a team or with a partner.

-        Problem solving and the ability to look at things from multiple perspectives.

Written class test (30%) and course work (30%).  

Oral and aural continuous assessment (40%).  

-        Bienvenidos a casa (talk about something or somebody and talk about quantity, localise things and people);

-        Qué guapo (develop a conversation about personal information and relationships, express possession, describe people´s look and personality);

-        ¿Dónde vamos? (express needs, wishes and preferences, ask and reply about prices, places and transport, to say thank you).

Nuevo Prisma A1 - Libro del alumno, 2013; Equipo nuevo Prisma; Edinumen (Units 4-6).

Easy Learning Spanish Grammar (Collins Easy Learning Spanish), 2011, 2^nd Edition; Collins

To prepare for A1:

El Cronometro A1, 2010; A. Bech Tormo, E. Dominguez Marin and M. Sauras Rodriguez-Olleros; Edinumen.